Word: truce
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Capone told Philadelphia officials a yarn about effecting a gang truce for Chicago while in Atlantic City, whereby the Beer Racket would be peacefully divided between what remained of his old mob and that of George ("Bugs") Moran. Chicago officials were skeptical of any such blessing, but, good sportsmen, they congratulated Philadelphia on putting Capone behind the bars for the first time in his notorious career...
Revealed last week by L'Illustration, famed Parisian review, was a hitherto suppressed and most significant fact: on New Year's Day, 1915, His Royal & Imperial Highness, Wilhelm, Crown Prince of Germany and of Prussia, sent a German captain and buglers, bearing a flag of truce, across "no man's land" to the headquarters of French General Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail...
...book" (an ancient "Cyclopedia of Nursery Remedies") that never again would they allow themselves to be separated and parcelled out to their various undeserving parents. For of parents there were almost as many as children: The Wheaters sponsored Judy, the twins, and after divorce and remarriage, Chipstone, badge of truce. In an intervening marriage to a gaudy cinema star Mr. Wheater begat Zinnie, while Mrs. Wheater retaliated with a decadent Italian prince, and adopted Beechy and Bun, offspring of his earlier alliance with a circus acrobat. When the Wheaters remarried (each other), cinema actress and Italian prince found further unsuitable...
...There is no truce with these fellows...
...hastening a renewal of this old acquaintanceship their efforts are to be commended. Shaking hands and cancelling old grudges is a more delicate maneuver for rival athletic associations than it is for quarrelsome small boys, but in this case little excuse remains for a longer postponement of the truce. Vale Daily News...